I have noded some of what I consider to be a few of his finest writings (when is it best to take crack cocaine?, cocaine, crack, the good drug guide amongst others), with both his written permission and encouragement - a sign of a diamond geezer if ever there was one. I've never met him, so I don't know anything more about him than from his pages and a couple of emails, but he's clearly an asset to our generation. Please check out his pages and give him your support if you think he deserves it.

I'm not noding these for XP, and I'm not trying to claim credit where it isn't due. All these nodes have their source clearly marked, and I wanted to node them in the true spirit of E2 - as an information resource for the future, a way to preserve what I think are some superb pieces of research, writing and generally sensible thinking.

There is little background information available on David Pearce. In particular,
his date of birth is unknown to the public, though from the dates of his actions, it can be
inferred that he was most likely born in the mid 1970s. It is only known that he
went to Oxford university (west of London), supposedly in the Brasenose
College division specificly, and as of 2005, he lives in Brighton (south of
London).

David Pearce's accomplishments:
David Pearce was the co-founder (with Nick Bostrom) of the
World Transhumanist Association (often abbreviated as WTA), at Oxford University in 1998.
As of 2005, the World Transhumanist Association has about
3000 members worldwide, with about half in the United States,
and large numbers in other english-speaking
countries. A transhumanist is a person that supports
transhumanism, the ideal of modifying the genome of humanzygotes (either some of them or all of them) so as to
increase human ability, versatility, resilience, and efficiency of living.
Other methods that serve the same purpose, most notably cybernetics,
are also considered. Transhumanism was not originally David Pearce's
or Nick Bostrom's idea, nor were they the first to popularize it.
Transhumanism was originally popularized by Max More, the founder
of the extropy institute (founded in 1988),
though David Pearce and Nick Bostrom were the first people to create a political organization
specificly for the purpose of supporting transhumanism.